Samsung has made globally available KNOX 2.0, the company?s end-to-end secure mobile platform designed to provide data and privacy protection for enterprise users.

The platform provides better support for IT departments looking for convenience as they implement and manage their Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategies.

The Samsung KNOX platform is no longer one product but represents a portfolio of multiple products and services. As a result, the original product launched in 2013 as Samsung KNOX - the core security platform and app container ?has now been renamed KNOX Workspace.

Announced at MWC 2014, KNOX 2.0 includes KNOX Workspace, EMM, Marketplace and Customization. KNOX Workspace is currently available on the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S5, which can be activated by IT managers for later use. KNOX 2.0 will be available on other Samsung Galaxy devices through OS upgrades in the coming months. The MDM previously used with KNOX 1.0 is also fully compatible with KNOX 2.0. The workspace users of KNOX 1.0 will be automatically migrated to that of KNOX 2.0 with the OS upgrade.

New and evolved features for the KNOX 2.0 platform include:

- KNOX Workspace offers a series of core security enhancements to better protect device integrity from kernel to apps. These upgraded features include TrustZone-Protected Certificate Management, KNOX Key Store, Real-Time Protection for System Integrity, TrustZone-Protected ODE, Two-factor Biometric Authentication and the Enhanced Generic Framework of KNOX.

- KNOX Workspace provides new features for its container for a more flexible approach for enterprise deployment. It supports all Android apps from the Google Play Store and provides a better policy control compared to the Native SE for Android, allowing the user or IT manager to choose their preferred container.

Split-Billing works with carriers to separately calculate the bills for personal-use apps and professional-use apps and in turn bills the company for all enterprise or professional app use.

In addition to the core features of KNOX 2.0, brought by KNOX Workspace, users will also have access to two new cloud based services, KNOX EMM and KNOX Marketplace, and a customization service, KNOX Customization. These broaden the KNOX 2.0 customer base by catering specifically to SMBs.

KNOX EMM provides cloud-based Mobile Device Management and Identity and Access Management (SSO + Directory service) with a set of IT policies to implement company guidelines.

In KNOX Marketplace, SMBs can find, buy and use KNOX and enterprise cloud apps in a unified environment.

Last but not least, KNOX Customization offers a new way to create customized B2B solutions with off-the-shelf hardware by providing either SDK or Binary to Systems Integrators(SI).